Re: NFS performance tuning

Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Is it considered safe to run postgres over nfs if the sync option is used?

No, because NFS is not atomic in its operations.  However, a number of
people are running PostgreSQL over NFS to network attached storage
devices, and it seems to run fine --- I just am not sure what will
happen if the network attached storage devices goes down.

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